MH-252 Lymbyc Systym - Love Your AbuserLove Your Abuser, the debut full-length from Arizona’s Lymbyc Systym, is a sprawling post-rock epic. Brothers Jared and Micheal Bell have created an album of ten distinct pieces that capture an emotional range not often seen in instrumental music. From the playful to the sublime, Jared creates the core of Love Your Abuser with layer upon layer of vintage keyboards and effects. Michael’s virtuoso drum work and tasteful programming add the perfect complement to the melodies. The album maintains a consistent sound throughout, yet each composition stands on its own. Without uttering a word, Lymbyc Systym have made one of the most powerful statements in the Mush Records catalog.

Lymbyc Systym: The Greatest Band Ever. A good friend of mine passed away only 3 months ago. In an effort to cope with the loss I decided not to ignore it and act like it never hap­pened, but instead to dive right into all of the great things that he showed me and revisit old influ­ences that we shared. If there is one thing that this man knew about and shared his knowl­edge on, it was music. I still remem­ber the day we were shar­ing albums in his office and he insisted that I take home and check out Lym­byc Systym’s Love Your Abuser.Back then, and this was prob­a­bly in 2007, I wasn’t really dig­ging the instru­men­tal tunes. Maybe my musi­cal palette was not yet refined. There was some­thing there, but I just didn’t know what it was. This band was the first that I dug out of an old hard drive and became instantly immersed.The loss and grief cer­tainly influ­enced my rein­tro­duc­tion to them, the com­fort it gave me, how­ever after lis­ten­ing to that fresh­man album I real­ized how smart my friend was. Why he chose the music to share became appar­ent. His depth of knowl­edge in music, both lis­ten­ing and per­form­ing, really made him a genius in the sub­ject. Just give it a lis­ten for your­self. Any song, really. Most of them are so com­plex that it is hard to believe that you only lis­tened to 10 or so tracks. For work­ing, exer­cis­ing, dri­ving and breath­ing, Lym­byc Systym is the best. - Michael Forbis